Image-forming apparatus

An image-forming apparatus comprising (a) a recording head operable to eject ink droplets for forming an image on a recording medium, (b) a movable body on which the recording head is mounted, (c) a driving device operable to reciprocate the movable body in a main scanning direction, (d) a medium feeding device operable to feed the recording medium in a secondary scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction, and (e) a control device operable to control said recording head, said driving device and said medium feeding device, to perform a recording operation to form the image on the recording medium, the recording operation including a non-margin recording operation in which the image is formed with said ink droplets on the recording medium, without a margin left along an edge of the recording medium,

• wherein said control device includes at least one of () a waiting-time control portion which is operable in said non-margin recording operation, to provide a predetermined waiting time between a moment of termination of a movement of said movable body in one of opposite directions parallel to said main scanning direction and a subsequent movement of the movable body in the other of said opposite directions, if the non-margin recording operation by the recording head is performed during the movement of the movable body in said one of the opposite directions, and (ii) a speed control portion which is operable in said non-margin recording operation, to control said driving device such that after said movable body is moved in one of opposite directions parallel to said main scanning direction while the non-margin recording operation is performed by the recording head, said movable body is moved in the other of said opposite directions at a lower speed which is lower than that of the movement of the movable body in said one of the opposite directions.